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Kaylie C.

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  • Tumblr

3/16/18

Tumblr has always been a site for people to do slackivism, get offended at literally everything, and then pay themselves on the back and feel morally superior do it. But at least a few years ago, if someone blocked you, they just couldnt see what you said, but you could still revolve their posts and other people could see what you said on any of their posts before they blocked you. Now, for the past 2-3 ish years, tumblr made it so everything you said on a post of someone who blocked you (before they blocked you) cant be seen by anyone else if they look at the notes, you cant see anything else the person who blocked you says, and you can no longer reblog anything from them, EVEN IF IT WAS YOUR ORIGINAL POST THAT THEY REBLOGGED FROM YOU (which the person who blocks you can do) AND YOU WANT TO RESPOND ON YOUR POST. This is usually just irritating because it means if someone wants to make it look like everybody agrees with them, they can, but its also dangerous, because people will post blatantly false information with the intent of other people acting on it as if its 100% true (includes health advice and people faking claims of being attacked and demanding action, both of which are dangerous things to lie about when the reason for the lie is to get people to behave as if its true) and anybody who points out everything wrong with what that person is saying and proves that what theyre saying is utter BS can just be blocked by the OP so that nobody can see the correction of their lies anymore. This policy is so obviously easy to abuse and I cant believe tumblr staff thought it was in any way a good idea and STILL havent changed it when the dangerous ways its been used (that I outlined earlier) have been going in since they implemented the policy. It also completely halts any ability to have a discussion and makes the whole website EVEN MORE of an echo chamber than it already was. Its such a clear design flaw, but I doubt tumblr staff actually care if people dont like their ridiculous policies.
Also their harassment policy is so goddamn vague. If I reply to someone once and they get pissed and say GET OFF MY POST AND NEVER TALK TO ME AGAIN, regardless of whether or not anything Ive said or planned to say would actually constitute harassment in any other context, I cant reply again at all because their extremely broad definition of harassment means I could get my account deleted by replying to someone twice ever. Again, yet another policy that fosters the development of an echo chamber and completely kills any ability to have a discussion. And yet, with their self harm promotion policy, reporting blogs whose every post violates that rule often results in nothing being done. Tumblr staff is extremely inconsistent in their enforcement of the TOS, except for those that promote people never being called out for lying publicly and people ever having to see an opinion that deviates from their own in the slightest. The only good thing about the site is the user interface, most of the users are terrible, the terms of service are incredibly vague, and the block policy ensures that people who are either blatantly intentionally lying or are just plain wrong about everythings theyve said (whether or not they know theyre spreading misinformation) can ever be called out and/or corrected in a way that isnt easy for other users to see.

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